hi i came to ask a question about the h50. iv got mine running in the system you see below and a full load is taking it to the high 80's low 90C. im just running it on a pull system with the fan provided my cpu is running at (http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1266655) after looking at the reviews this seams incredibly high any one know why or what to do?

You say your running it as a "pull system" do you mean you have the fan so it is not pushing air through the radiator? Will try to illustrate. fan<radiator so the fan is just pulling air through the radiator not fan>radiator? If you have it the first way then that is why you are getting such high temps. you always want to push air through the radiator if you have a single fan if you have two then you use the second fan to help the push fan pull air through.

I think it matters more on the fan he's using(not sure) than on the orientation of his setup.

Being that I didn't have 8 bolts(short set, standard set) I had to set mine up "shorted" in Pull orientation at the top of my Case. It gave me 34c @ Idle and 49c @ load. So I don't think his setup is the problem if he's having one.

~Ceadder

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Originally Posted by Carfanatic

You say your running it as a "pull system" do you mean you have the fan so it is not pushing air through the radiator? Will try to illustrate. fan<radiator so the fan is just pulling air through the radiator not fan>radiator? If you have it the first way then that is why you are getting such high temps. you always want to push air through the radiator if you have a single fan if you have two then you use the second fan to help the push fan pull air through.

Just added myself to the club.
I attached some pics.
First, my P182 modified to add an 80mm fan to lower drive bay and two 120mm to middle drive bay. Unfortunately, I had to remove the rearmost one to fit my graphics card.

Next are front and rear of assembled push pull configs which will go into 3 5.25 drive bays. The front view shows a filter attached, but I had to remove this when i thought about the difficulty in cleaning it.

The last pic shows the front of the case with the filer mounted on top of a cut out in three drive bay covers glued together. I can just pop the filter cover off and wash the filter.

Unfortunately, I was so tired after getting it all doen that I neglected to photo the case interior after installation. I replaced a TRUE 120 with one fan and here are the results:

Idle before 43,43,40,,38 MB at 35
Idle After 39,39,36,36, MB at 31

OCCT Linpack for 10 minutes (It was all I had for the TRUE)

Load before 71,71,68,65
Load after 63.63.57.57

I am one very happy camper!

Only concern - How do I clean the radiator after iy gets dusty without having to remove it from the drive bay>Edited by Lenster - 6/28/10 at 6:05pm